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100	1		_aMoore, Peter, _d1983- _eauthor. _9278943
245	1	0	_aLife, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness : _bBritain and the American dream / _cPeter Moore.
250			_aFirst American edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bFarrar, Straus and Giroux, _c2023.
264		4	_c©2023
300			_ax, 572 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, maps ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"With Benjamin Franklin, William Strahan, Samuel Johnson, John Wilkes, Catharine Macaulay, Thomas Paine."
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 513-552) and index.
520			_a"A history of the British thinkers who developed the Enlightenment-era ideas and ideals that drove the American Revolution"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_aThe most famous phrase in American history once looked quite different. "The preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness" was how Thomas Jefferson put it in the first draft of the Declaration, before the first ampersand was scratched out, along with "the preservation of." In a statement as pithy--and contested--as this, a small deletion matters. And indeed, that final, iconizing revision was the last in a long chain of revisions stretching across the Atlantic and back. The precise contours of these three rights have never been pinned down--and yet in making these words into rights, Jefferson reified the hopes (and debates) not only of a group of rebel-statesmen but also of an earlier generation of British thinkers who could barely imagine a country like the United States of America. Peter Moore's Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness tells the true story of what may be the most successful import in US history: the "American dream." Centered on the friendship between Benjamin Franklin and the British publisher William Strahan, and featuring figures including the cultural giant Samuel Johnson, the ground-breaking historian Catharine Macaulay, the firebrand politician John Wilkes, and revolutionary activist Thomas Paine, this book looks at the generation that preceded the Declaration in 1776. Everyone, it seemed, had "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" on their minds; Moore shows why, and reveals how these still-nascent ideals made their way across an ocean and started a revolution.
650		0	_aEnlightenment. _922991
650		0	_aPolitical science _zGreat Britain _xPhilosophy _xHistory _y18th century.
651		0	_aUnited States _xCivilization _xInfluences, British.
650		0	_aAmerican Dream. _9170430
650		0	_aPhilosophers _zGreat Britain _vBiography.
651		0	_aUnited States _xIntellectual life _y18th century. _9157721
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xIntellectual life _y18th century. _9393968
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xHistory _y18th century. _961260
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775. _921032
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _yRevolution, 1775-1783. _921881
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